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A defining, stereotypical characteristic of a geezer is his rose-tinted glasses of misplaced nostalgia. Things just aren't as good as they used to be. Nor as good as they should be. What extra qualities do you need to be considered a grumpy geezer? Here's a check list to confirm whether you qualify: 1. Opinionated? Self-reflection is not a characteristic of a grumpy geezer; rather the certainty that you are always right is. This is irrefutable. Self-doubt and open-mindedness do not lend themselves to grumpiness. Geezers have the advantage of life experience - we've been around longer, have read more, seen more, thought things through for longer. Our opinions are therefore of a higher value and when that is not acknowledged we get grumpy. 2. Grumpy, but not cranky? Perpetual grumpiness is not necessary to qualify as a grumpy geezer; just a propensity for it. Even those glass-half-full optimists know, while not admitting to it, that the glass is also, by definition, half empty - the internet is a wonderful innovation (brought to you by baby boomers BTW) but it's 98% full of garbage and is a tool ripe for exploitation by Big Brother; capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty but is a Ponzi scheme that is destroying our planet. Crankiness though oversteps the mark. A grump will mutter and complain - a crank will be shouting at pigeons and passers-by and throwing the neighbour kids' misplaced toys into the bushes. 3. Eccentric? Hipsters wearing dress shoes without socks is not eccentricity - it's style slavery, a desperation to be cool and hip and "ironic"; these fashion tragics, adhering to an idiotic trend are clearly demonstrating that they are anything but cool. (NB: that's sarcasm, not irony. ) Eccentricity is behaviour that is outside the accepted norm. In a world of political correctness, conformance and fear of giving offence, eccentricity is to be celebrated and embraced. ( If eccentricity was widely adopted then it would become the new norm. That folks is irony. ) 4. Assuming the worst? Pessimism has inherent advantages. If things turn out for the worst we can be smug (see Opinionated ); if not, then the only downside is admitting that maybe we got it wrong. " An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true. " Anonymous 5. Pedantic? Pedantry is a virtue - particularly in the use of language. From the mundane (their/there/they're) to the egregious crimes of corporatese, from the meaningless drivel of marketers to the pollie waffle we get from our elected officials. The abuse of the English language will send the grumpy geezer into paroxysms of indignation. I am not promoting grammar nazism; the language is fluid and neologisms can be a wonderful thing - I am grumping about the lazy, the purposely obtuse, the mindless cliches, the gibberish and dross dressed up as communication. If the phrase "landing on water" gets on your tits then it's likely you're a fellow grumpy. 6. Speaking your mind? There are limits of course but those limits need to be far looser than the self-imposed censorship of the self-righteous snow flakes and the politically correct seeking offense everywhere - the new puritans wagging fingers and pursing their lips because, for example, the use of a gendered pronoun may cause discomfort. To who? I don't care if someone is *LGBTQI+, none of my business and good luck to 'em, but do we really need a taxonomy that is that precise? I won't label someone because of their sexuality but it seems many are determined to do it to themselves. And then shout loudly and indignantly from a loudhailer that the use of "he" or "she" is confronting? Fuck off! In Australia, surveys have identified more than 50 gender expressions while Facebook users in the UK and US have 71 options to choose from 7. Realist? Can someone claiming that things are not as good as they used to be then also claim to be a realist? You bet, because overall things just aren't as good as they used to be. There is no halcyon past for us to return to - our rose-tinted glasses provide 20-20 vision, but on balance i thank my lucky stars i was born a boomer. The post-WW2 anglophone countries experienced a huge lift in quality of life. We had access to the necessities without today's rampant, superficial consumerism, society was far more egalitarian, a stolen car made the papers, we were free and safe to wander the neighborhood, parks and the bush on the proviso we returned at dusk. This is no maudlin sentimentality, it's just the way it was and it was better than the way it now is. 8. Misanthrope? Do you have a non-discriminatory, generally applied view that humanity collectively really is a pain in the arse? Selfish, pushing, shoving, self-obsessed, destructive rabid consumers who take little if any interest outside their bubble? There's room in misanthropy for individuals to be acknowledged for their outstanding abilities and achievements. Isaac Newton, for example, was possibly the most brilliant scientist of all time. But he was also a miserable, misanthropic old coot. A grumpy geezer if you like. 9. Irreverent? A disdain for authority, a distaste for pomposity and pretension? Scornful of the self-important? Congratulations - you have strength of character and one of the traits of a grumpy geezer. Score 0 - 3. Why are you reading this? 4 - 6. You have potential. 7 - 9. Greetings fellow grumpy. Grumpy Geezers - a Spotter's Guide Walt Kowalski. Clint Eastwood, Gran Turino  A crusty, grumbling racist, he constantly refers to Asians as "zipperheads” and other slurs.   But when push comes to shove Walt stands up for the little guy. Basil Fawlty John Cleese, Fawlty Towers An "ageing, brilliantined stick insect" running the Fawlty Towers hotel, a class conscious snob who is obsequious to his betters and contemptuous of all others.   John Cleese himself described Basil as being a man who could run a top-notch hotel if he didn't have all the guests getting in the way.   Cleese successfully sued the Daily Mirror for libel when it described him becoming like his character. Perhaps the eccentric, lovable old Major (Ballard Berkely) is a better role model.   Doc Martin Martin Clunes, Doc Martin   Brusque, with a low tolerance of fools, stiff, lacking in social skills, straight talking. What's not to love? Statler and Waldorf The Muppets hecklers Snarky irreverence that can inspire the curmudgeon in any of us. . Albert Steptoe Wilfred Brambell, Steptoe and Son Neither Wilfred Brambell nor his character Albert Steptoe could be held up as fine examples of the grumpy geezer.   However, both qualify whether we like it or not. Tony Hancock Hancock's Half Hour   The gold standard of grumpy geezerdom. I defy anyone to watch two consecutive episodes of Hancock's Half Hour and not jump out a window. John Becker Ted Danson, Becker   I was well into the second episode of Becker before it dawned on me it was a comedy.   Dr John Becker - my hero. John Malkovich, Burn After Reading   He thinks he’s smarter than just about everyone else, he sees himself as a solitary sage in a land of idiots, deluded that others will be interested in his writings ....oh...wait! Melvin Udall Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets   Misanthropic, homophobic, alienating, germophobic but self-reliant and creative. A mixed bag.   The OCD is a nice touch.

And being the real Barnaby Joyce Original image " I’m not pretending to be anyone else, I’m still wearing the same glasses, sadly the same suits, and I weigh about the same, and I don’t mind a bit of Italian cake either. So, I’m happy in my own skin. " Scott Morrison pretending he's not a pretender. When you're Scott Morrison you need to pretend that you're not Scott Morrison In Latin the name 'Scott Morrison' translates as 'Gobshiteus Ad Nauseum'. OK, it doesn't but it should. Morrison is, however, a human ambigram - a condition known as Zachary disease , a symptom of which is the discharges from either end being indistinguishable. “ When you’re prime minister, you can’t pretend to be anyone else ” effluviated the originator of the ScoMo ® artifice in all of its manifestations: Old mate Sharkies tragic Drinking buddy Family guy Bob the builder Scotty next door BroSco, messiah from the Shire Musician Bon vivant Curry connoisseur Stoic bushie gazing into the distance Big rig truckie Lab tech Beautician Fighter pilot Long distance swimmer Team mascot Tank commander Trump whisperer Defender of Aussie values Father of the nation On the tools tradie Fiscal conservative Big spender Glorious leader One of the boys Insightful engineer (".. .they won't tow your boat, they won't tow your caravan ") Dog Lover* Mark McGowan's BFF * insert cat as required to cover the bases There is no escape from the stage managed appearances of this smarmy pillock in one of his many ScoMo contrivances. A flubbetered, be-moobed, crotch stained incontinent in his dress-up du jour who thought it a clever sledge to skinny-shame a trimmed down Albo. He's a colourless dullard who thinks that just enough electors to matter are stupid enough to indulge his inane charades when even Lib rusted-ons are rolling their eyes. Awkwardly for Morrison his assertion of authenticity has simpy highlighted his phoniness. Those that know him best said it best... Image: The Twitterati “ People may not agree with everything I have done but they know what I am about. ” Unfortunately for Faux this is probably true but not in the way he intends it. His general uselessness has alerted the politically disengaged that what he's about is photo-ops trumping substance, announcements substituting for delivery and that what he and his minders are all about is saturating a complicit media with stunts to distract from his habit of setting fire to his own head. The shameless lying of this media whore has caught him out - it's all on tape. The gullible, the lazy, the apathetic and the wilfully ignorant have had the real ScoMo rubbed in their faces via monumental failures in national crises so his fatuous marketing schtick and relentless bullshitting is blowing back in many and varied forms including many takes on his self-applied, asinine nickname: Scotty from Marketing, Diddley Scott and Smorph Spinocchio, Scurry, Smoko and Sir Smirksalot Smirko, Smuggo, Smarmo and SloMo Shirko, Sooty, Skiddy and Scooter Scuttle, SchMo, FauxMo and Shithead The odious prick has been fully exposed for who he really is to those who may have otherwise been inclined to ignore the obvious and now he's in panic mode. Still, it is fun watching him shit himself. This time, in real time. I may miss him when he's gone. The best retail politician in the country And so we move on to the B Team, the rustic oiks of the Nationals (t/a the Man-Coal Love Association) headed by a bloke who most of the nation gazes upon and, as with a penguin on a flag pole, wonders how the actual fuck he got there. Fermented brewster Boozerby Joyce, the stool to Morrison's dunce, red of face and blue of balls, has apparently earned his place at the pointy end of the bumpkin patch due to his focus on the bush. Having the intellect of plankton and the vocabulary of a Peppa Pig early reader must be essential attributes in the job description for these crem de la criminals for whom rorting is not a dodge but a credential. Image from Change.org Boozerby could detect the opening of a plain, brown envelope through a concrete wall so no-one is questioning his aptitude in that respect. What is a tad more challenging to understand is the appeal of his presence. This boke is unburied landfill, he's a physical manifestation of tourettes with the satorial elegance of an upended kitchen tidy. Culture is what grows between his toes, he has the coherence of gravel shaken in a rusty bucket and breath that should never be exposed to a naked flame. None of this reconciles the penguin/flagpole paradox. Perhaps he's just a reflection of his constituency. Rugged, self-reliant stoics always on the make for a hand-out. Big farmer, big polluters, water thieves, tree poisoners, pet abandoners, double parkers, seal clubbers, finger sniffers and those whose utes outnumber their books. Perhaps it's because Boozerby has overcome many challenges in his career, not least brewer's droop. Perhaps it's his personal contribution to employment opportunities within New England - of dry cleaners and designated drivers, divorce lawyers and Alco-lock beta testers, girlfriend placement agents and barmaids' bodyguards. Perhaps, gawd help us, it's because he really is the best the Nationals have got. The only good judgement either of these two have shown is that they hate each other.

When the Liberals run out of money they come after the poor " Calculated assaults on the most vulnerable and marginalised are reduced to the natural order of things. " Maeve McGregor, Crikey The Robodebt royal commission's findings clearly demonstrate why the Tories fear scrutiny and accountability. They have long abandoned any pretence of principled governance, relying instead on the complicity of the Murdoch spitoons' fabrications and the fever swamp of RWNJ radio to provide cover for their mendacity. Their behaviour was always there to see for those who could be bothered to look beyond the propaganda but now their ugliness has been paraded down the main street like a turd on a flat-bed truck accompanied by brass band and marching girls. The 'guilty til proven innocent' atrocity that was Robodebt is only now the cause of some red-faced shoe inspections by those who would rule over us, and while they may modify their artiface it won't change their innate bastardry. They'll amp up the dissembling, projection and obfuscation; dead cats will be thrown onto tables, dogs will be whistled but they will never demonstrate any humility or genuine contrition and will be only briefly distracted from opportunities to practice their nasty craft. Aware of the pending exposure Brother Stuie Robert legged it for the exit, following the onomatapaeic Alan Tudge into the perdition of historic damnation for "venality, incompetence and cowardice". The hubris of Christian Porter, of the born-to-rulers' catalogue of big swinging dicks, has seen this once PM-in-waiting reduced to Lionel Hutz status, touting his wares on sandwichboards on servo station forecourts. Brother Scotty still haunts the periphery, trousering the public coin as corporate Australia, conscious of reputational damage, lets his calls go through to voicemail. Never before has the country been led by such a repugnant, bullying blowhard who, convinced of endorsement from his eagle-staffed deity, saw a licence to ignore propriety and undermine anyone who stood in the way of the acclaim he thought was his God-given due. A feckless drudge who'd struggle to meet the KPIs of school hall monitor, a shonk who "disappeared" billions in rorts, a spiv who'd eBay his crusty undies as the shroud of Turin and a serial sackee who through guile and happenstance failed upwards into his risible, karaoke performance of PM - the role he debased with a "sly contempt for political norms" as Maeve McGregor of Crikey puts it. . Spud Dutton has walked into the cubicle after Morrison. A year after the Tories were thoroughly rinsed across the country it would be reasonable to expect he'd take the opportunity to air the place out. Spud's Cuddly Pete re-imaging is a work-in-progress - stitching together a human skin suit as cover for his mix of Myra Hindley warmth and Norman Bates bonhomie - a teddy bear tied to a bin lorry, a ruse that won't cover the smell. (Surely though it's apocryphal that visitors to the Chez Spud basement find themselves coughing up moth pupae.) This Silence of the Lambs metaphor should be qualified with the observation that Buffalo Bill at least showed an artistic bent that entirely escapes the beige that is our real life lockless monster. Spud's newly deployed Clark Kent specs don't disguise his inner Tubermensch - a truncheon-headed autocrat we've grown to loathe and despise since he came to notice with a range of outputs from his racist oeuvre . Untroubled by the burdens of either wit or intelligence he has ridiculed drowning Pacific island nations, tormented toddler asylum seekers, denigrated Melbourne's Sudanese communities and exploited division and rancour in the Voice debate, all as supplements to his hobbies of drowning puppies and putting nails in the hoola-hoops at daycare centres. Spud's predictable duplicity with his response to the Indigenous voice to Parliament shows a change-over of personel has not improved the Tories' amorality. His framing of the Libs as victims of Labor's scheming in the Robodebt saga is Trumpian in its up-is-down audacity. Not to be outdone in the scorched earth approach to acceptable standards the Lib's partners in crime, the Nationals, are reportedly again considering a return of pink pachyderm spotter Barking Barmy Joyce. When Barmy remains a viable option it says so much about the lack of talent pool that is the ignorant oik's party of choice. Temporary leader, the nominative-deterministic David Littleproud projects an image of himself looking for his own brain, but aesthetics aside he's yet another National committed to their cause of steering pork and the white elephants to regions in need instead of some fundamentals such as health and education that could be serviced by, and hear me out, a fully functional NBN. Barmy's mouth is the source of fevered allusions to a woke, left-wing dystopia and is home to a random placement of teeth like long-forgotten headstones in an abandoned churchyard . His lack of credibility is not matched by the certainty that his name is amongst the wideboys, spivs and persons of interest who have been referred to the newly opened National Anti-Corruption Commission. The outcome of the royal commission provides some succour to those citizens demonised and persecuted by their own government. The NACC will provide huge amusement for those of us who can't wait to see these toads cop some real consequences for their bastardry. * * * * * " Given the opposition is clearly in a state of denial over the report of the robodebt royal commission, it has obviously learnt nothing from past mistakes and would, if re-elected, presumably not hesitate to repeat them. " Editorial in The Canberra Times. Is Barnaby Joyce after the leadership again? - The Saturday Paper Taxpayers forked out $2.5m in legal expenses for eight former Coalition ministers, including two prime ministers, to be represented in the robodebt royal commission, with almost half a million for Scott Morrison. The Guardian.

"Fair dinkum mate" I heard on the news A bloody big bus was out for a cruise Painted on the sides in big bolded type Was ScoMo's latest slogan A load of old tripe ScoMo's new image was there to be seen Across parts of Queensland where he'd never before been The locals were puzzled "Who the fuck is that prat?" The answer was prompt, it came quickly back "We don't really know him, that twat in the hat" A pie in his one hand, a beer in his other But a dinkum true blue is what we would druther Not a second rate ad-man, and try-hard at that Shouting and ranting and denying the facts We don't really like him, that twat in the hat "Just one bloody moment" came a cry from the back "I've come a long way down that dusty bush track" " I'm the real deal - a rustic wombat'' The purple-faced pisshead pushed his way to the front "If you're after fair dinkum then I'm the twat in a hat" Is this the worst band in the world? The malignant monsignor from Manly: Abbottageddon The Undead - haunting the House under the hill Egregious arseholes - The Top Ten

Squizzy's a little suss The Gate Keeper. More gates than Heathrow Angusgate - the collective noun for watergate, grassgate and Clovergate - $80M of our money for evaporated water, ecocide and the mystery farmer from Yass, and forged claims of Clover Moore's expenses. From Sussan to Angus - both burdened with a redundant consonant but only one has the full suite of born-to-rule Tory credentials - scion of the Monaro plains squattocracy, an alumnus of the boys only The Kings School*, law and economics at Sydney University and a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford. And, most importantly, he has a dick. *Year 12 - $50K tuition fee + $38K boarding fee thank you very much. Rugby, cricket and Christianity inc. Those qualifications were later supplemented by creating synergistic value propositions with key stakeholders, leveraging learnings, circling back, opening kimonos, monetising intrinsic values, touching base and reaching out as a management consultant at McKinsey and Co and Port Jackson Partners. All of this supports Angus's claims of championing we common folk. Kiss O'Death Tony Abbott has said that Angus is “the best person for the job...the next election is winnable”. Half-term Tones' rabid puritanism, destructive negativity and appalling judgement set in train the federal Lib's death spiral, so such endorsement will amuse those amongst us who expect Angus's charred remains to wash up on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin some time shortly after polls close at the 2028 election. "...what a lot of people say about Angus Taylor is he is the best qualified idiot they've ever met," Malcolm Turnbull Angus's performance in Parliament has been limited to functioning as a chew toy for treasurer Jim Chalmers. Angus brings a balloon on a stick to the Question Time gun fight. He's at his best when he tries to shrink into the green leather of the Opposition benches. Scandal magnet Angus's name recognition stems mainly from his various gates. The Fidel D'Figueres award for creative Caymans accounting is a shoo-in for Squizzy's Watergate should there be any substance to suspicions of dodgy dealings. $80 million of our money for non-existent water to old chums and Liberal party donors? Squizzy gets very toey at any suggestion of impropriety on his part. The poisoning of endangered native species is not something that would upset the ecocidal maniacs who infest the Libs and the Nats. Unfortunately for the Taylor family it's illegal and they were sprung for doing just that, whence Angus "sat in" on the strong-arming of public servants to look for loopholes. Big A claimed he was assisting with enquiries on behalf of a constituent "farmer from Yass". Perhaps he was misheard. A farmer from "y'ass" maybe, given he was never able to be located. The zoo keeper's bucket that is the Coalition's version of an energy policy manifests as a series of clownish gambits to undermine renewables and maintain the rivers of gold to the pals in the fossil fuel industries. From newly discovered concerns for the well being of whales supposedly endangered by wind turbines to Chinese Communist plots to deindustrialise the West these fuckers will give any idiocy a run, and Angus as energy minister was head clown. Hence Clovergate. Clover Moore, Sydney Lord Mayor, is every RWNJ's bête noire. A woman, in authority, a "woke" inner-city, latte/chardonnay sipping elite who is successful and popular and horror of horrors, a champion of net zero. Enter our hero. Armed with what anybody but a fucking idiot would recognise were dodgy numbers Angus dropped a bucket of ordure all over his own head via a doctored document slipped to Liberal Party Promotions Pty Ltd trading as News Corp, claiming Moore's office had spent more than $15M on travel when the real costs were circa $6K. Fiddle da figures indeed. And this guy was Spud's shadow treasurer FFS! Cathy Wilcox, the SMH Wearing a symbolic white suit, less suffragette more White Ladies Funerals given the circumstances, and with her trademark forced smile that always betrayed her loose convictions, suggestive of someone who'd just been handed a turd on a spoon, Sussan Ley departed gracefully. Suss met all expectations for a female Liberal leader - shivved by the boys' club. Any sympathy I may have had for her gig evaporated upon her shrill, performative outrage over the still warm bodies of 15 murder victims. Look on the bright side Suss - Andrew Hastie will be gunning for Squizzy in short order. Memory joggers Not a drop of water after government spends $80m on rights from agribusiness. Anne Davies, The Guardian. 31 Oct 2019 Company part-owned by Angus Taylor illegally poisoned grasslands, ministerial review finds. Lisa Cox, The Guardian.14 Dec 2021 Angus Taylor apologises to Clover Moore 'unreservedly' over false travel figures. Christopher Knaus and Anne Davies. The Guardian. 31 Oct 2019

Previous hopes of Umber One's imminent demise were dashed. Maybe this year... Perhaps his coffin could be adorned with his FIFA Peace Prize - provided the lights aren't too strong and melt the chocolate. What will the obituaries cover when it finally happens? De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est - of the dead nothing but good is to be said. It is inappropriate for the living to speak ill of the dead who cannot defend or justify themselves. If thus applied to Donny the eulogies will be mercifully short. Trump of course respects no such niceties. He possesses neither sympathy nor empathy. He cannot even pretend. When misfortune is visited upon a trumpophobe he delights in their torment, joking about the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband for instance. Upon his own eventual demise, amidst the celebrating and the removal of all of that faux gold tat, he'll deserve nothing but contempt. Consider his response to the murder of Rob and Michele Reiner: The nastiness supplements his narcissism and avarice, the foundational flaws of the effluvia of personality defects that congealed to form this orange-stuccoed vulgarian. Flavoured with malice, coloured with carnality, fulfilled via criminality but every atrocity and every failing is subsumed within his flatulent, bloviating yet fragile self-regard and his bottomless greed. An absurd, discoloured objet d'ridicule, petty, petulant, vindictive, vituperative, crude, stupid, an autofellating gobshite, a thin-skinned, self-congratulatory fabulist who is readily manipulated by flattery and for whom loyalty is demanded but never returned. Truth is entirely dispensable, facts are irrelevant - if Covid deaths are not counted then there is no pandemic (" If we stopped testing we'd have fewer cases "), if the data is not collected climate change is not happening. Alice in Wonderland. A megalomaniac with delusions of omnipotence, though his needy, whiny omnipresence is more than real in daily tirades on his Truth Social shitter-Twitter app, in his catalogue of trashy, gold-themed merch, his Trump-branded baubles and tawdry monuments to himself, in daily headlines of his latest outrages and soon on $1 coins that are planned to feature his image. It manifests in his insertion of himself and his insecurities into every issue from befouling the John F. Kennedy Center with his own name to bragging to a young child from Pennsylvania on a staged PR Christmas call - " Pennsylvania is great, we won Pennsylvania, actually three times. We won it a landslide ". He has announced that the US will commission a new series of heavily armed Navy "battleships" to be named after himself. “ ...I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand new very large, the largest we’ve ever built... and, uh, there’s never been anything like these ships...they’ll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far, one hundred times more powerful than any battleship ever built. if you take the biggest one, it’s one hundred times more powerful, uhhhhh - they’re longer... and they’re bigger, they’re bigger ships...they hold much more- they use the word ‘lethality. ’” The proposed ships are, a former rear admiral said, “ focused on the president’s visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship ”. In an artist's illustration the vessel sports an image of Trump on its upper deck. A solipsist, he has no ideology beyond the self. There is no cause other than Trump. His life is an endless pursuit of applause and acknowledgement of his specialness. Not even the office of POTUS assuages his neediness. He claims criticism of him is treason. The world is familiar with the hubristic jingoism of many Americans but Trump dials the rodomontade to 11. The tiresome, incessant, self-aggrandising bombast - referencing an MRI he boasted that a doctor said it was “ the best result he has ever seen ”. A gobshite whose braggadocio is mistaken for achievement by the MAGA rubes or excused as showmanship by his fluffers and appeasers. A sideshow spruiker in the role of leading man, a narcissist who prefers theatrics and the spotlight to the demands of real accomplishments. The rancid stench of corruption is now out in the open, even celebrated, whether it's his personal grift, expansion of executive power or the perversion of institutions from a compromised SCOTUS and DoJ through to the adulteration of the conscience of the nation. Not so much a presidency as a shakedown: Pay to play - $1 billion extorted from oil companies to cut regulations and their taxes, hundreds of millions in pro bono work from law firms in exchange for access to government contracts, subjugating the media through lawsuits that they cowardly settle for $millions and standover tactics for a cut of the action with Intel, Nvidia and AMD¹. Trump withdrew US security guarantees with allies, replaced by the payment of protection money. Trump pardons cronies who boost his crypto coin. Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating. Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business. Selling citizenship in the form of ‘Trump Gold Cards’. " Everything in the US is for sale to the wealthy, friend or foe. Citizenship, work visas, security guarantees, key industries, advanced military capabilities, AI and sensitive tech. For the right price, anyone can have whatever they want. ² " There is no decency he has left unoffended. His default setting is unconstrained, promiscuous flouting of proprieties. Rules are for suckers. He is impulsively nasty to women and is a serial sexual assailant. He fetishizes revenge and violence. He uses the machinery of government to license his crimes and persecute his opponents. He has declared a concept, Antifa, a “terrorist” organisation to supress lawful protest and quash dissent. "Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly." Trump's opening lines to his Christmas message 2025 "Papers please!" Americans' right to move freely without proving their legitimacy to the state has been removed. ICE agents may stop individuals based on “reasonable suspicion” (i.e. their dusky shade) and detain them to verify their immigration status. The White House has demanded the ICC alter its founding document, the Rome Statute, to ensure blanket immunity for Trump and other top officials thereby acknowledging genuine legal vulnerability. Trump's pathetic, fruitless whimpering for Nobel Prize recognition is a greater humiliation for him than the supposed affront of a black president being so honoured. This is possibly the most apt metaphor for his sorry character and dysfunctional achievements. Trump by the numbers 30,000+ documented lies by the end of his first term $355 million in civil judgments 78 Mar-a-Lago health violations for rust, mould and parasites 34 felony convictions 6 bankruptcies 5 draft deferments 4 indictments 3 wives 2 impeachments 1 insurrection 0 Nobel Peace Prizes Trump's fines & settlements over the years... 1988: $750K Anti-trust lawsuit Bally 1990: $750K Defamation for accurately predicting Trump Taj Mahal would fail 1991: $200K Removing black workers from casino floor 1991: $30K Circumventing state regulations 1998: $1.4M Hiring of undocumented workers 1998: $447K Money laundering violations 2000: $250K NYS Lobby Commission 2006: $100K Palm Beach flag ordinance 2015: $799K Defamation Trump University Student 2015: $10M Money laundering violations 2016: $50K Data & credit card breaches 2016: $1.3M FEC disclosure errors 2017: $25M: Trump University fraud 2019: $2M: Trump Foundation fraud 2019: $290K: Scotland wind farm 2021: $122M: Trump campaign forced to refund to donors 2022: $110K: Contempt of Court 2022: $750K: Funneling Inaugural funds to his business 2022: $1.6M Guilty 17 counts criminal tax fraud 2023: CFO sentenced to prison 2023: $10K for attacking court personnel 2023: $1M Court sanctions bogus lawsuit including $171K to be paid to Hillary 2023: $5M E Jean Carroll sexual assault 2024: $83.3M E Jean Carroll defamation 2024: $392K Court sanctions bogus lawsuit- NY Times 2024: $453M business fraud Trump's lackies... Trump's Chief Strategist Steve Bannon - Convicted Felon Trump's Trade Adviser Peter Navarro - Convicted Felon Trump's Campaign Adviser Roger Stone - Convicted Felon Trump's National Security Advisor Michael Flynn - Convicted Felon Trump's Company CFO Allen Weisselberg - Convicted Felon Trump's Campaign Chair Paul Manafort - Convicted Felon Trump's Deputy Campaign Chair Rick Gates - Convicted Felon Trump's Personal Lawyer Michael Cohen - Convicted Felon The Trump regime has employed over 30 people who have worked for a TV station that was fined $787 million for lying to its viewers. Trump has fired… The Navy Chief of Staff The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs The Head of the Navy Seals The Naval Operations Chief The US Navy Reserve Chief The Head of the US Cyber Command The Head of Defense Intelligence The Coast Guard Commandant The Air Force Chief of Staff The Air Force Vice Chief of Staff The top of AF Global Strike Command The top legal officer of the Air Force The top legal officer of the Army The top legal officer of the Navy The top legal official of the CIA If he intends to launch another coup attempt at the mid-terms or in 2028, or formally ally with Russia, he can't have a principled military standing in his way. (As a practicing coward the only wars he's been active in as Commander In Chief are conflicts of interest.) The Pedo files A creepy uncle, a changing room lurker, a grabber of pussies, possibly even his daughter's so keep a puke bag handy, because yes, that is a bit of sick you will taste in the back of your mouth - " Aides said Trump talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside & what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led (former Chief of Staff) John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter. ³ " . He once said of a child he saw on an escalator " I'm going to be dating her in 10 years" . A close confidante to a pedo sex trafficker, a facilitator who fulfils the role of "friend", Jeffrey Epstein told the journalist Michael Wolff that he was Trump’s closest friend for ten years. "The only photos you ever see of Donald Trump where he is authentically smiling in the presence of another human being, is with Jeffrey Epstein." David Frum @ thebulwark.com The Christian shtick The applauding of the persecution of asylum seekers during Christmas is the quintessence of the evangelical MAGA's selective application of their Christian values. Masked ICE goons disappearing people from the streets because of their middle eastern skin tones and shipping them to Salvadoran gulags is likely not endorsed by their lord and saviour - as Nordic looking as he may be. This does however explain how these self-righteous hypocrites can look at Donald Trump and see a man on a mission from God. Trump knows an easy mark when he sees one so he's all on board the Jesus train when the cameras are rolling. He was once asked what Bible verse most informed his character. He responded with “ an eye for an eye. ” The charisma of Donald J. Trump Grandpa Highpants McTinyhands. This is MAGA's golden god. The facial aesthetic of a composted jack-o-lantern topped by a threadbare, tortuously coiffed merkin, the chin minge, the cankles, the flatulent narcolepsy, the overflowing Depends with toilet paper stuck to his shoe, his puckered sphincter pout accompanied by invisible accordion hands and rudimentary oratory comprised of a slurry of random words and lies and with " no discernible taste - in food, clothes, architecture, books, music, business or people ⁴". His is a regime characterised by kitsch, ostentation and vulgarity be it gilded tat disfiguring the Oval Office, bloated Mar-a-Lago face of the botoxed Strumpets or the fireworks and merch at Erika Kirk's memorial for her recently dead husband. Gibberish and magical thinking The appalling imbecility of a lissencephalic dullard - a self-professed genius who confuses a dementia screening with an IQ test. He thought American stealth bombers were literally invisible, being perplexed at how technicians could then work on them. Hannibal Lector is an actual person in Trump's atrophied brain, wet magnets don't work, California's water flows down from Canada because, you know...gravity, windmills cause cancer and he has a buffoonish insistence that 600% reductions in prices are a feasible thing and that tariffs are paid by foreigners . "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it". He is insulated from reality by self-absorption, obsequious flunkies and creeping dementia. "Nobody explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages—we have languages coming into our country, we have nobody that even speaks those languages. They are truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them." Trump, 29th February 2025, in a speech in Eagle Pass, Texas "I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe." Trump, 20th December 2025, North Carolina ' Decisions of great consequence are made on the whims of a moron .' Surrounded by ballbag gargling sycophants he has no friends - only fawners, spongers and wannabes and the techno-libertarian parasites Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Vivek Ramaswamy, and Fox News et al who all are America's Ferdinand Porsche, Hugo Boss, Bayer, Deutsche Bank, IG Farben and Krupp - profiteering from totalitarianism. All the king's whores and all the king's men When assigning administration positions Trumpty Numpty applied a cynical role inversion - defence is war, environmental protection is to be environmental exploitation, education is book banning, communication is censorship, free speech is forbidding terms⁴ such as gay, transgender and climate change, vaccines are a health threat and justice is pardoning insurrectionists, narco kingpins, donors, confreres and seven Republican congressmen who'd been convicted of crimes. “President Trump has assembled the most talented and capable cabinet in American history,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson A representative sample of the talent he has deployed: A former professional wrestling CEO as secretary of education who dismantled the Department of Education. A long-time climate science denier in charge at the EPA. An overt Russian asset as director of national intelligence (known as Наша девчонка   by her Russian handlers). There's ICE Barbie Kristi Noem whose audition for secretary of homeland security was shooting her puppy in the head and there's Pete Hegseth, the pisspot former Fox News commentator, noted Signal abuser and accused rapist as secretary of defence/war because " looking the part matters more than being qualified for it because in America it does." ⁵ Kash Patel, a goggle-eyed, out-of-his-depth conspiracy theorist as FBI director whose default 'uh-oh' facial expression suggests one of his anal beads has just dislodged. He purged the FBI of agents who'd been assigned to work J6 cases and he has a girlfriend who sings at wrestling matches. The law & order triumvirate for 'truth, justice and the American way': AG Pam Bondi and deputy AG Todd Blanche - the leading law officers of the land who will be seeking a presidential pardon from their orange overlord lest with a post-GOP Congress they both find themselves in jumpsuits colour-coordinated with spray on Trump-o-Tan. Then there's J. Edgar Doofus, who had he not been appointed head of the FBI would be getting chased down the street by ICE goons given his dusky tint. A wildlife necrophile whose own head was retrieved at a graverobber's closing down sale. A vax contrarian/health secretary who has taken the Kennedy family's legacy of infidelities and successive tragedies on an unexpected tangent with beheaded whales, dead bear cub feng shui and cringe erotica ( “ Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,... ”). . The Kennedy mystique could accommodate prolific philandering, "Happy Birthday, Mr. President", JFK-RFK-Marilyn Monroe, Chappaquiddick, a secret, botched lobotomy, Judith Campbell and the Chicago mafia, an affair with a young babysitter, and even a rape case. It took RFK Jnr's Trumpification and vax quackery to burst the Camelot bubble. Nosferatu McGoebbles ⁴. While Trump golfs, grifts, browses Despot Depot magazine for décor ideas, rage tweets and fantasises about pre-teen girls it's this guy who is running the country. Take one Peter Dutton, marinate in shattered hopes and dreams, simmer in the juice of Rasputin, stir in essence of Uriah Heep, add a dash of Himmler, sprinkle with Roy Cohn's ashes, some phlegm and a scrape of under-shoe accumulations and allow to fester in a discarded colostomy bag and you have White House policy director Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller got into politics because his arms were too weak to strangle prostitutes - internet meme. Stephen King could not have invented such a malodorous personification of evil. (Hat tip to the parents of Department of Homeland Security’s acting chief security officer who named their daughter Iwona B. Horyn. Yes, that is her real name. ) The Trump legacy America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies. America’s former role is gone. America will never be trusted again because when at last he's dead there'll still be enough Americans to vote in someone just like him. After experiencing how appalling he was in his first term they voted for him again. A fawning lickspittle to murderous despots he alienates allies and empowers enemies. Should there be another major terrorist attack on U.S. soil the participation of any "coalition of the willing" in seeking retribution will be grudging at best. The U.S. has jeopardised its own security. Who amongst its current allies will share intel that is subject to being disclosed to Putin? Who will want to be BFF with a Kremlin stooge? Trump has alienated Canada and Mexico, threatened the U.N., Greenland and Denmark, Panama and Venezuela, insulted NATO, Europe generally and demeaned Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically and annoyed Japan while he curtsies to Putin and accommodates China, the biggest threat to Australia's security. The U.S. interferes in its allies’ domestic affairs, encouraging the far-right and undermining Western countries' sovereignty - t he Trump administration sanctioned several European officials after Elon Musk was fined for violations of their Digital Services Act. Trump has withdrawn from 66 international organisations, including 31 United Nations entities including WHO, UNESCO and the UNHRC and slashed funding of USAID. He withdrew from the Paris Agreement because " America First! "... the USA apparently enjoying its own separable climate. The U.S. is developing global pariah status. " An authoritarian regime that tries to jail its critics, kidnap citizens off the streets, commit extra-judicial killings and war crimes, demand the media prevent criticism of the Dear Leader and call for the execution of political opponents. ⁸" 'Under Trump the U.S, is not the envy of the world, it's a warning.'   Rather than the gaudy pretension of Trump's ballroom, designed in Las Vegas bordello style, or his proposed grandiose triumphal arch his passing should be marked instead by merch outlets at his funeral service and a strong smell of ammonia on his headstone. “ Jesse, it’s a monument. I’m building a monument to myself because no one else will. ” Trump to Jesse Watters of Fox News on his hideous White House ballroom. ***** When he's finally despatched to the clunge country club in the sky, dribbling, shitting and gibbering the event will be marked by fawning hagiographies from distraught cultists whose bile, post mortem, will go without the imprimatur of their pumpkin-coloured vessel of God. The canonisation of Charlie Kirk (no pun intended) will look tasteful in comparison to the coming extravaganzas of mercantiled grief when Donny pops his clogs. Corporate media will seek balance - sure, he was a total douche but he was the guy who dreamed up Gaza Golf Resorts and Spas Inc and who thought outside the box (nuking hurricanes, waterbombing Notre Dame, alligator infested moats on the Mexican border anybody?). Heads of state will issue polite lamentations, carefully crafted to avoid any celebratory tone. There may be back-handed compliments - 'he weaned us off assuming the U.S. was reliable', but not in those exact words :) History will be far less equivocal. Toadies and arse kissers will wash off the orange, claiming to have been part of the resistance from the beginning or, in Trumpian style, seek to make a quid from his corpse via "tell all" books that paint themselves in the best light. Perhaps Melania will go commando at the wake in anticipation of a consoling hug from a hunky Secret Service agent. But the streets will fill with cheering crowds. Strangers will embrace. Tears of joy will flow. Bars will fill with revellers. Sadly El Cheeto wont be around to see it. ¹Politico. Donald Trump, the shakedown president ²Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch Network ³Blowback, Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff of the Department for Homeland Security. ⁴ Vince Mancini titled "A Timeline of Donald Trump Discovering the Word 'Groceries ⁵The American Blonde Bombshell. Mike Madrid ⁶Nosferatu McGoebbles - borrowed from   Jeff Tiedrich ⁷ 250+ words and phrases reportedly no longer considered acceptable by the Trump administration - Pen America ⁸Bernard Keane, Crikey References Study Finds Trump Has The Vocabulary Of An 8-Year-Old Child. Marie Clare, 5 November 2024 " Trump’s overall score was... equivalent to the reading ability of a third-grader within the American educational system. " Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again' Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum. Matt Gurney, The Line, 9 December 2025 Trump's psychopathology and the suicide of a superpower Claire Berlinski, The Cosmopolitan Globalist 26 Oct 2025 · " Donald Trump lives in a world of delusions. The things he believes aren’t true. Media accounts suggest that those around him treat him like a relative with dementia. They tell them whatever he likes to hear, so long as it keeps him happy and calm. They don’t correct his misapprehensions. They strive, instead, to make the world conform to his fantasies. " Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? Politico Magazine, 22 m ay, 2016 " ...Trump’s career has benefited from a decades-long and largely successful effort to limit and deflect law enforcement investigations into his dealings with top mobsters, organized crime associates, labor fixers, corrupt union leaders, con artists and even a one-time drug trafficker whom Trump retained as the head of his personal helicopter service. " New plaques on Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ offer pointed descriptions of predecessors. " The White House has installed plaques along President Donald Trump’s “Presidential Walk of Fame,” offering descriptions of his predecessors, often written in the style of his social media posts — including insults, baseless claims and random capitalization. " Alejandra Jaramillo, Kit Maher. CNN 18/12/25 What Trump offers is an easy escape from the pain. To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution. He can bring jobs back simply by punishing offshoring companies into submission. As he told a New Hampshire crowd—folks all too familiar with the opioid scourge—he can cure the addiction epidemic by building a Mexican wall and keeping the cartels out. He will spare the United States from humiliation and military defeat with indiscriminate bombing. It doesn’t matter that no credible military leader has endorsed his plan. He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein... He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it. JD Vance, Opioid of the Masses, The Atlantic 2016 This is the guy who denigrates the US military saluting a North Korean general.

The tattered remnants of the "natural party of government" experienced a collective bout of the vapours when their keys to the nation's treasure were confiscated and the very real prospect arose that some of their most egregious persons of interest would be held accountable for the boondoggles, daily scandal and general douchebaggery. They are now re-grouping under new management to reactivate the fear and loathing that is their brand. Cartoon: Alan Moir The Game Of Mates is the Tories' raison d'être - it gives the tawdry existence of their party some meaning, it puts the 'dicks' in Big Swinging Dicks ® , it's their viagra, their self-esteem. It's the foundations of the Tory ecosystem, it's the glue that binds their warring tribes who otherwise despise each other. The Thatcherites, cutpurses, chancers & urgers and glory holers, the bible-bending mammonites and the poofter bashers that make up their number were all collectively bereft that the grift without access to our money is unworkable. Now no lie is too outrageous, no sanctimony is too hyprocritical to facilitate the big con, to once again seek to serve their neo-liberal instincts for national asset stripping and stealing our money to gift to their pals. Their big problem as they arise from the fainting couch and straighten their hair is how to sell their shitfuckery anew to punters who had abandoned them due to that very same shitfuckery. You can accuse the Tories of many things and if any of those things is derogatory then there's a fair chance it will be true. Like herd stupidity. Thinning this herd by taking out the lame and the dimwitted is futile if the objective is to improve the breed. These dullards actvely disenfranchise their best and brightest ( i.e. the less repulsive ) leaving a shallow gene pool that has an animatronic legume as its figurehead and as 2IC a befuddled ditz who's out of her depth at the wading end. What these clowns in their wisdom seem to have decided upon is a threefold strategy: After moderate electors abandoned their party the worst-of-the-worst are pushing further right and doubling down on the issues that saw them thrown from office. Yet unless they win back the seats lost to independents they’ll need an unrealistic 54% of the 2PP for majority government. Then also they adopt the blanket negativism of the rabid Abbott's clownship regardless of the harm to the national interest. After being laughed from office Abbott's been haunting the periphery with delusions of a Churchilian return, reminding voters of the Christo-Taliban who infect the Tories yet the modus operandi of a bloke whose term as PM was shorter than the shelf-life of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends still inspires the surviving Tory by-catch. They will politicise every issue ala Punchable McSmirkFace. Morrison personified the most soporific, contemptible, mercenary government in our history, yet the Libs have never seen a bad idea that they aren't prepared to repeat. The stage 3 tax cuts being a perfect example - they are salivating at the prospect of a political wedge. What's best for the country is entirely irrelevant in the pursuit of political point scoring. Lessons learned? These idiots keep pressing the close button on the elevator doors that their heads are trapped in. Their attempts at reputational recovery are at Sideshow Bob level. If you've ever peed on an electric fence you'll recognise the presentation skills of Lib deputy douche, the Tories' head tosser Sussan Ley. Bed hair, rapid eye blinks and facial tics suggest the speaking points on her whine list are being transmitted via vibrating anal beads. Suss elicits an image not so much of windswept, womanly intuition, more a blancmange in a windtunnel; barely holding together a coherent sentence in her stream of contrived outrage at whatever the Tory spin machine has nominated as the deflection du jour. Bluster serves as camouflage, shame and embarrassment ooze from her pores as she snivels her self-pity where, after 9 years of neglect, incompetence and criminality everything is the fault of someone else . Trotting out LeyZ to front the media highlights at least some instinct within the party that the big tuber, Spud Supreme, was not yet ready for full, uncensored public consumption. Unfortunately for them most people know exactly who he is and so the Cuddly Pete treatment will be trowelled on by the pamphleteers at News Corp as cover for his innate, menacing, deadpan shtick on the occasions he escapes his keepers. Spud is sticking with his greatest hits - fear, uncertainty and doubt; Spud's FUD. Brownish toddlers threatening our way of life by inspiring invading hordes of suicide bombers, fearful Melbournians seeking refuge from dark rampagers, union thugs, indigenous Australians, the gay and trans communities, "an over-tolerant society", dirty lefties, climate protesters, refugee advocates and rude Tweeters besmirching his reputation. RWNJs always need an enemy on whom to project their own worst instincts and Spud's marked his territory. If you're of "the other" you will be demonised. The flaw in all of this of course is that when you add up all the others you have a majority - hence, the Tories and their News Corp muck-spreaders will prosecute the culture wars to divide and conquor. Venality unites the Tories. What they cannot understand is that empathy, the fair go, the helping hand unites the rest of us and so they will fail. Big time. Cartoon. Cathy Wilcox

The boys are coming for you Suss You're disappointed Sussan? ABC News Electing Sussan Ley as party leader was a positive for the Liberal Party given she is the best talent they have. A negative for the Liberal Party is that Sussan Ley is the best talent they have. Licenced pilot, former air traffic controller, ex-punk, ex- station cook and wool and beef farmer, ex-public servant, master's degree in tax law and master of accountancy and the most senior woman in the Liberals’ 80-year history. Not bad. Until you scratch the surface. In 2001 in her first tilt at parliament Ley lost Liberal preselection for the Victorian seat of Indi to Sophie Mirabella. Fact hunt - Mirabella, the bacon fat on Gina Rinehart's chip butty, the Excretia Borgia of RWNJ politics and now (thanks to therapist and Lib AG Christian Porter) a Commissioner for life on the Fair Work Commission on $388,000 p.a . (who says Tories don't have a sense of irony?). Losing preselection to that flabulous, wedgie-in-waiting is quite the achievement, but perhaps that says more about the Liberal Party than it does about Ley. The surviving half of Dud & Suss, Ley is a member of the Lib Moderates - an oxymoron akin to 'frolicsome soccer hooligan'. As Dud's 2IC at the 2024 incineration of Tory hopes and dreams she effectively came 2nd in a loser contest. Brushing off the smell of burning Tory flesh she has re-entered the fray brandishing the same balloon on a stick - "What would Peter say? What we would he do? What examples can I draw from from his leadership of our team?" Sussan Ley addressing the LNP party faithful at their August '25 convention where the consensus was to keep digging that hole despite the lingering waft of charred Tory bodies. Anyone tempted to grant Ley some slack because she's a woman at the pointy end of a boys tree house club replete with toolies, old school witch burners, ducking stoolers, Christian Taliban and Aunt Lydias should consider her record. Ley's "I'm so disappointed" routine, (sooking and sulking and blowing snot bubbles at Albo) has been put to one side now that she's head girl* at the fuster of clucks that is the Tory front bench. However, the head tossing and the woe-begone expression of a proctologist's manicurist make an appearance whenever performative self-righteousness is called for. * Don't @ me. It's used ironically. We can put aside her numerology provided she limits it to rearranging the plants who make up her ministry - oh, wait...that's feng shui. Too many slides down the bannisters, her inner ditz kicked in when she insisted that once in office the Libs will scrap the tax cuts to low income earners, and when telling Sky News that no-one was making electric utes and saying people with $3million + Super savings are doing it tough... "Ley has a habit of pulling the pin on hand grenades then holding them until they explode." Niki Savva, journalist, author, and former senior adviser to prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello. Gaffe incontinence was a feature of wisdom suppository Tony Abbott, the shit that happened, during his thankfully short-lived regime. S'ooze is showing this wasn't an Abbott-specific tic but a feature of addled, principle-free thinking whenever the L/NP are distracted from their core mission of shovelling public money to their mates. Sussan Ley, Question Time 6 Feb 24 " Will the PM rule out any changes to the current tax treatment of neg gearing? " Sussan Ley, Sky News 7 Feb 24 " I'm not going to play the yes, this is good, no this is bad, the rule in, rule out. I'm not going to do that " Saying that the first step in Closing the Gap was to " listen to the indigenous " when her party vigorously opposed ' Yes'  in the Voice Referendum is Suss showing the boys she too has mastered the Tory go-to of rank hypocrisy. And here's a fine example of how she champions the sisterhood: “While men speak on a variety of topics, they also speak for women so I’m very comfortable with the leadership of our party.”  Suss, press conference at Parliament House, May 2022. There's lots more, but this could get tedious and she has displayed worse flaws. Miss Ley's seat of Farrer lies west of Canberra. The taxpayer funded 20+ trips to the Gold Coast where she owns an investment property. The Gold Coast is well north of Canberra. As Health Minister she charged taxpayers to attend two New Year's Eve events hosted by Sarina Russo, one of Australia's richest women courtesy of Tory crony capitalism. None of this puts Ley even close to the nastiness, comical unsuitability, loathsomeness and ugliness of her predecessors - crypt escapee Ol' Camphor Balls, followed by the wingnut in the red sluggos, through God's anointed emissary Diddley Scott and thence to Cuddly Pete. She could reasonably be considered to be vacuous but much preferable to any one of the four of them. But let us also take into account some of the darker side. All aboard the Tubermensch's dog whistled racism train - " If you do not want to see Australian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor. Send Labor a message ". Her own electorate has some of the highest rates of violence against women in NSW and three of the highest child sexual assault areas. Australia - no better place to raze your kids where the once Minister for the Environment showed an 18th century view of the environment as adversary where “...we just have to pick winners” - trees or tradies in a zero-sum conflict. Future generations can fuck off too -  fighting in court to prove she had no duty of care to protect young people from climate collapse while looking into ways to help mining companies bypass environmental laws. On the side of genocide, backing a foreign, mass murdering war criminal against our own PM. Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC and his regime forged Australian passports so Mossad agents could assassinate Palestinians in Dubai and murdered Australian Zomi Frankcom and six aid worker colleagues, hunting them with repeated missiles. Dismembered children's limbs being gathered up by their parents, premature infants left to die and decompose in their incubators, families burnt alive in their tents, snipers targeting children - every atrocity imaginable is not important if there's an opportunity to score political points off Albo - stating she will officially “revoke” the recognition of Palestine and insulting anti-genocide demonstrators as hideous protestors.  The icing on this perfidy cake is the insistence that Albo demean himself and hence our country by fondling the teeny weeny of the Orange Despot. You may be a strumpet Suss but your country is not. Being an awful person does not bar one from leadership of the Liberal Party. Experience has shown that it is a credential. S'oozy has been doing her best to show the boys she'd buffed her CV and is up to the job. It is not going to save her. Will they wait for the next election to take her out or will it be a pre-emptive shiv? The boys line up. Candidates and saboteurs The Meritocracy ™ . RWNJ dream candidate Jim's Rent-A-Tory Andrew Hastie, flight risk Fingers Taylor, Tim Figjam Wilson. And outsider Desperate Dan Tehan. Angus Taylor would steal the sprinkles off an orphan's fairy bread, so that box is ticked. He's also a fucking idiot - not a disqualifier (Tony Abbott anyone?) and yet despite all evidence to the contrary he thinks he's credible PM material. He'll likely pull the trigger to pre-empt Andrew Hastie, a more palatable contender, flat-earther or not. The good new is that Angus is counting his own numbers hence he'll fuck it up. Tim Wilson would go to the opening of a bowel if there was a photo op to be had. His own biggest fan boi but autofellatio is not gonna sell him to most of his cohort who prefer a more hands on style. Dan Tehan, amuse-douche. Not saying he talks shite but when they put teeth in his mouth they ruined a perfectly good arsehole. Lignocephalic ¹ Ted O'Brien? LOL! Jacinta Name-Ya Price? Puhlease. This is the Libs. She's Black, she's female, she's a dispensable, useful idiot. S'oozy - gone before April Fools Day. ¹ Lignocephalic - wooden-headed, thick. From the Medical Acronyms and Doctors' Slang Dictionary. " Retiring independent MP Tony Windsor nominated Mirabella for "the nasty prize" when asked who was the person he would miss least in politics on the ABC Insiders program. "She is the nastiest – I reckon if you put it to a vote to all politicians, she'd come up No.1 " The Border Mail Local News Tony Abbott's 10 biggest gaffes, clangers and cringeworthy moments . SMH, 11th March 2015 ($).

It is so very, very difficult to not get spittingly angry when reading about the magnitude of incompetence, humbug, self-interest, greed, lying, obfuscation, meanness and unadulterated nastiness that characterises this LNP Coagulation that misrepresents itself as a government. The disrespect, indeed the contempt that they hold for ethics, morals, trusted institutions and for you and me is breathtaking. These are the people who stand up for the harbourers of child sexual abusers; those harbourers who, cloaked in their godliness conspired to protect kiddy fiddlers. They resist scrutiny of the spivs and urgers who infest the banks. Yet they will spend our money in the many tens of millions to harass and silence those who serve the interests of others or who do not espouse their ideology of selfishness - the ABC, the unions, a Human Rights Commissioner, GetUp and charities and yet they deny, lie and deceive to protect the richest and most powerful organisations on the planet - organisations that have been shown to target the weak and vulnerable as routine practice yet are to be donated billions of our money as largess from their scumbag political mates. And yet they obfuscate and delay the implementation of a federal integrity commission. This is a "government" of smear and attack, of wedging and dog-whistling. They are beyond loathing. Following is an check-list of the ethics and standards of this clew of worms. Ladies and gents, the LNP Ethics and Integrity Index from The Lying Rodent through to Ol' Jellyback and ScumMo . Barmy Joyce and the Watergate scandal ScumMo and the $180M Christmas Island photo op scandal Australia's debt now higher than all government debt combined since federation scandal Libs fake news death tax scandal Leaking of classified ASIO docs to The Austraian scandal Christian Porter bus for a job scandal Morrison's abandonment of ministerial accountability scandal Michaelia Cash refusing a statement to the AFP scandal Michaelia Cash $800k legal bill paid by taxpayers so she can avoid scrutiny scandal Michael Keenan refusing a statement to the AFP scandal HelloWorld Hockey scandal HelloWorld Cormann scandal Paladin scandal Freedom Boy Tim Wilson's "enquiry" into franking credits scandal Murray/Darling water scandal LNP sham anti-corruption scandal L/NP MPs refusal to agree to the Fitzgerald Principles of good governance scandal Steve Martin $500,000 office upgrade scandal Andrew Broad scandal Tax payer funding of coal-fired power stations scandal Hughes pre-selection scandal Border potection hypocrisy scandal Data decryption scandal Federal ICAC "fringe issue" scandal Protecting religious discrimination against LGBTs scandal Paris climate accords accounting trick scandal Senate filibustering on Nauru kids scandal ScumMo's Queensland Blunder Bus scandal Relocating Australia's embassy to Jerusalem thought-bubble scandal Stuart Robert internet bill scandal Opera House advertising scandal Ignoring the IPCC report scandal Bullying of MPs scandal Nobbling the Walker Enquiry scandal Sausage Rolls Craig Kelly's MH17 scandal Trevor Ruthenberg's false medal claims scandal Prosecution of the Nauru bugging scandal whistle-blowers scandal Nauru bugging scandal Super Saturday/Labor conference date clash scandal Vote to sell the ABC scandal Call for scrapping the GST on super yachts scandal Greg Hunt abuse of Katherine mayor scandal Resisting an RC into the banks scandal RC into child sexual abuse scandal - "Julia Gillard announcing an in-principle royal commission into child sexual abuse, a panicked Tony Abbott falling into line" The Australian RC into political opponents/abuse of democracy scandal Resisting the establishment of a federal integrity commission scandal Gagging of charities scandal $444 million grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation scandal Energy companies overcharging $400M scandal Climate change denial scandal Direct Action cash handout to polluters scandal Andrew Hastie scandal Live exports scandal John Lloyd IPA emails scandal Airports identity checks scandal Raising the pension age to 70 scandal Pay Day Lending crackdown backdown scandal Border Farce's Melbourne goon squad scandal Marcus Bastiaan & the Mormon putsch scandal Emma Alberici witch hunt scandal CSIRO funding cuts scandal ABC funding cuts scandal Elite private schools funding scandal Monash Forum scandal Monkeypod Room scandal Gina Reinhard Recycling Centre for disgraced Tories scandal Au pair visas scandal $4 p.h. internship scandal Sharia style corporal punishment scandal Malcolm's $40,000 donation scandal Mal's $5 donation to a homeless guy photo-op scandal Sabotage of the NBN scandal Budget Emergency scandal Mal's personal fibre-to-the-home NBN and rooftop solar scandal $30M gift to Murdoch scandal $900M payout to Murdoch scandal Fiona Nash/Alastair Furnival healthy foods web site shut down scandal IPA to-do list scandal Liberal-IPA links scandal Nobbling the ABC scandal Lack of women MPs scandal Propertied pollies claiming they can live on $40 per day scandal Exploiting refugees for political gain scandal One Nation preference deal in WA scandal Politicisation of the public service scandal Kathy Jackson scandal Morrison's delay on asylum seekers' security checks scandal Corporate tax dodging scandal Slit her throat scandal MDB water theft scandal AWU raids scandal NBN raids scandal David De Garis scandal Simon Birmingham "TAFE is subsidised basket weaving" scandal John Kerr/Betty Windor correspondence cover-up scandal Roman Quaedvlieg 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You and Trump - WTF? You can't fix stupid but the red hats make it easy to identify.   Ancient proverb. Donald Trump's ' look - squirrel ' routine kept him from jail and got him back into the Oval Office. He commands the toady GOP majority in the House and he has the Senate Republicans soiling themselves at the thought of a harsh tweet while his apple polishers on the SCOTUS debase the notion of an impartial judiciary. Big Media are either his pimps or unctuous sycophants while the libertarian techno-capitalists Zuckerberg, Bezos and the like jostled each other to fondle his sack. (Except for Space Nazi Elmo. After a promising start with his performative reach-arounds he skulked away and is now busy hectoring the Brits on the positives of installing a horse-faced, nicotine-stained Reform grifter as PM via a copycat January 6.) As a consequence of the absence of any of that holding-to-account stuff the demented, orange buffoon has figuratively clad the U.S. in gaudy, gilded tat and shat on its constitution. The U.S. has come to this because of the "base". Not the wealthy carpet baggers, the right wing machinery or the gaggles of pneumatic, botoxed, duck-lipped camp followers looking for some rich, near death Trumper to suck dry (yeah, yeah), neither the servile weirdos, drunks and shameless opportunists in his orbit nor the full-on Nazis ala Stephen Miller or the discount handjob retailers like Laura Loomer. They are many but they are also too few. It's the multitudes of red-capped, dull-eyed, defiantly ignorant thralls of the MAGA cult who matter. Throngs of the stupidest people on the planet spook some of the richest and most powerful into sphincter-puckering fear. Those very same rich steal more and more from those very same stupid under the cover of Trump's hate mongering. Does the narcissistic orange moron think he's masterminding it all as 3D chess? It's The Apprentice redux with off-stage Trump whisperers holding his dick by flattery and telling him where to piss, although now they're never too sure whose shoes he's going to dampen. Trump does know however that he has to keep the audience happy. “It’s all about one thing: ratings. If you have ratings, you can be the meanest, most horrible human being in the world.” Trump, March 2021. Yahoo Entertainment . It's a symbiosis of the needy. Befuddled, resentful MAGA need a daddy figure; a broken inside Trump needs their adoration. Fearful oligarchs need the MAGA to think they are on their side while they pick their pockets. Artist unknown What I struggle to understand is how even the thickest of MAGA dullards can't see or don't care. The open corruption and the defilement of those things they profess to hold dear. How can you take seriously a self-basting, gibbering gobshite who's face-planted into a fresh cow pat, a ludicrously tortured coif crowning a bloated Harry High-pants whose moobs would tangle in his belt buckle if he could bend in the middle. "Smart people don't like me." Donald Trump. 16 September 2025 Sometimes there's denial, sometimes there's distractions and sometimes there's whataboutisms but MAGA will always respond to criticisms of the orange-stuccoed vulgarian with an accusation of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Dean Swift - “ It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he never was reasoned into ” or to paraphrase Upton Sinclair - ' It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his self-image depends on his not understanding it. ' Nevertheless, dear MAGA, let us step through this. (Note - there are polysyllables within that you may need help with. Ask a friend what 'polysyllable' means.) What is it about Trump you admire the most? What makes this guy the best option to represent your country, to say to the world " this  is who we are"? What is it that makes you puff out your chest with pride and gets you all misty-eyed? What are his God-like attributes that have you donating your pickup truck payments and eagerly bingeing on made in China Trump merch? Is it his humiliation of the USA with his child-like fawning over Putin?  Begging like a puppy for tummy rubs from a murderous dictator whose smirk shows he knows we know who has hold of the dog lead and who is running fetch. Did you miss the imagery of US servicemen on their knees rolling out a red carpet for Putin at the Alaska summit? It would've made Comrade Supreme Putin and his lackies giddy as would've Sergei Lavrov's 'up yours Donny' trolling with his CCCP* sweatshirt at the same event. * Cyrillic for USSR Is it other world leaders, rolling their eyes and chortling amongst themselves at his narcissism or their grimacing at the fetid waft of Depends leakage that has you leaping to your feet, waving Old Glory while hand over heart raising a rousing chant of USA! USA! USA! (at least you can remember all the words). Maybe it's the dignified statesman who harangued and humiliated Zelensky in a disgraceful display of bullying of the underdog, a forelock tug in the direction of his master in Moscow, that has you damp around the netheries. After all, he's the great negotiator who said on dozens of occasions, in an 'entirely serious tone, manner and context', that he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of his return. Is it his charisma? The magnetic personality of a capricious, touchy, paranoid, jealous, needy, whiney bitch whimpering for a Nobel Prize because, OMG, a Black man got one. Perhaps it's the family values of an adjudicated rapist and enthusiastic adulterer who's desperately hiding the Epstein files because we all know why. He stands up for the little guy and has your interests at heart? The tax benefits for his rich cronies funded by cutting health care and food assistance for the poor and working class? Bit of a dilemma there, no? Three billionaires own more wealth than half your country now. "Contempt for the weak, with a populist elite serving the leader who despises them" Umberto Eco, from the elements of fascism. Perhaps his soaring oratory and gift for language inspires you? (“ I know words, I have the best words. ”) The monosyllabic braggadocio and his meandering, infantile gibber? But hey, it is  enhanced by his racist taunts and puerile name-calling, his vindictiveness and denigrations of the communist/Marxist/socialist/fascist/woke slander of the nebulous "radical left" which, really, is all you want to hear. Here's why you really worship Trump ... The reasons for your adoration of the discoloured god-king are apparent. Trump gives permission for your own awfulness and ignorance to be overt and celebrated - " he hates the people we hate ". To rationalise your worship you ignore, identify with or deny the effluvia of flaws that form his character. You take pride in your ignorance. MAGA's opinions matter, truth is not just optional it is entirely dispensable. Your America is a nostalgic Norman Rockwell/Leave It To Beaver white-washed America that was gay-free, Black Americans, native Americans and the dusky-toned were out of sight and out of mind, kitchens were a woman's domain, Jesus was a white Republican and US military strength was a pre-Vietnam/pre-Afghanistan 'my dad can beat up your dad' source of jingoistic hubris. Heroic Trump will restore this mythic age where Rosa Parks was just an uppity trouble maker, civil rights was a threat to the deserving like-minded, cars were huge and 'Merkin-made and gas was cheap. It's where you'll never be threatened by Democrat-voting terrorists, criminals and immigrants and 'any actions to stem the threat liberals pose are acceptable'. U.S. troops, repurposed as Trump's  own Tonton Macoutes, are trucked into Democrat cities to intimidate as a precursor of what's to come. This serves as an oblique reminder of the shared characteristics of mad dictators. Papa Doc Duvalier anointed himself President for Life of Haiti, Muammar Gaddafi was a 'creepy womanizer who had a habit of hitting on female reporters, often meeting them for interviews in bathrobes or in his underwear'. Idi Amin wrote to the British government to propose he take over from the queen as head of the UK and he summarily expelled Uganda’s Asian community, many of whom had lived in Uganda for generations. The collapse of the US into another failed state under the rule of a discoloured, demented despot has begun. Trump has now branded a concept as a terrorist organisation. American casualties in WW2 were 407,000 dead and 670,000 wounded. They were fighting fascists. They were anti-fascists. Antifa. Authorising use of "full force" Trump has pointed the "guardians of democracy" inwards, authorising them to murder US citizens under the pretext that dissenters are Antifa and therefore terrorists and are ipso facto subject to extra-judicial execution. Make America Great Again indeed. The MAGA morons cheer him on: trump the reflexive liar speaks the truth. trump is draining the swamp while enriching himself, his family and his cronies. trump is a man of God. His flaws can be forgiven because he's doing God's work. trump the 'caring about the little guy' bottomless pit of greed stealing their social security and grifting them his tawdry tat. trump the bone-spurred strong man who is readily manipulated by flattery. The grandiose atrocities that are an assault on the senses - the theme park kitsch of Mar-a-lago, the gilt, Turkish bordello ambiance of the Oval Office, the micro-penis compensation of the proposed White House ballroom and the flying grotesquery that is his to-keep Air Force One V2. The stultifying, oxygen sucking, coma-inducing all-encompassing narcissism where every statement, every tweet, every speech and rant has to be centred on trump and his fantastical achievements is compelling, yes? The imbecilic pronouncements that would have your grandpa's car keys confiscated and a room would be sought at the Sunset Home For The Perpetually Bewildered. The noise generated by windmills causes cancer.... George Washington’s Continental Army “ took over airports ” during the Revolutionary War. He delivers such idiocies with the cow-eyed expression of a 6 year old hoping teacher will give him an ink stamp on his hand because he's the cleverest boy. “We’re gonna be reducing drug prices down to a level that nobody – not by 20%, 30% – by like 1,000%...." trump, September 2025 The trump name does not even deserve capitalisation. History will be unsparing, his descendants will hide their association, the name being a source of humiliation and shame. Make America Great Again means owning the libs, taking on the "elites" and returning to the racist, sexist, nativist times in the past. N aturalised American citizens and their descendants are not “real” Americans. Some say that respectful debate is called for. No, it's not - " no amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot " observed Mark Twain. MAGA are traitors, there is a coup in progress and MAGA are complicit in the destruction of US democracy and freedoms, tolerant of the rampant corruption and supportive of the brutality towards their fellow citizens. They do not deserve respect. They deserve contempt. Without these nasty-minded, servile patsies none of this would be happening. * * * * * You can always tell when he’s just learned something he thinks no one else knows. Like “groceries”. “So, I just wanna say H2O is essentially water… I’ve been seeing that term H2O and I just wanna say, that essentially means water.” Donald Trump. 7 April 2025 Thinking is hard. Why bother? A Profile of Trump Voters: The Demographics of his MAGA Enthusiasts and Their Relationship to Him.  OPEU - Observatório Político dos Estados Unidos 18 September 2024. An open letter to MAGA: History will not remember you as patriots but as a cult that betrayed liberty . Milwaukee Independent 4 July 2025. Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today. The Conversation 18 July 2025.

The extraordinary cult of the deified bowel movement Peanuts. Charles Schulz O ver the past not that many years there's been a steady supply of personality cults, the creeps, weirdos and psychopaths who rule(d) them and the dupes and collaborators who populate(d) them. David Koresh and Branch Davidian, Charles Manson, L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology, Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, Brian Houston and Hillsong, the Exclusive Brethren and their “Elect Vessel" and the risible, amorphous collectives of various sovereign citizen/anti-vax cookers. Then there's MAGA, the personality cult of the golden, effluviant god. In 1994, according to North Korean state media Kim Jong-il the then dictator and Kim cult supremo shot a round of 11 holes-in-one, 38 under par at the Pyongyang championship golf course on his first ever game. More recently Donny Phat-Fuk boasted of never losing an event at any of his golf tournaments, once claiming to have won a club championship although he hadn't played the first round. And he has said he won an event at his Bedminster kitschtastic gauche course & wife cemetery by shooting a 67 on a course on which LIV Golf held a tournament and of the 144 rounds only six pros shot 67 or lower. " For some reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete − I have won many Club Championships... " the athletic Grandpa Highpants, 2023 "Dear Leader" Kim compensated for his economical 160cms/5'3" stature with shoe lifts and a bouffant. "Dear Leader" Donny, Fat Bastard's orange body double, makes claims of a weight of 97 kilos/215lbs, trowels his face with a slurry of adobe and sports a bizarre comb-over of sparse, bleached, tortuously coiffed left-over strands from camel blanket swatches. North Korean propaganda said Kim piloted jet fighters, penned operas and had a photographic memory. Umber One, the "very stable genius", talks up his own skillset - “ Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV...I got a perfect mark. And the doctors were -- they said: Very few people can do that. Very few people get that...they said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did ". An unprepossessing Kim was short, slight and liver-spotted, an aficionado of beige and a comical sybarite who inherited his cult of personality from his dead dad Kim Il-sung. We could be forgiven for believing that a dynastic, repressive hermit kingdom is an easier place to maintain the facade of omnipotence than is an open, democratic United States. But, sans angry North Korean newsreader lady Ri Chun-hee, in the race to '1984' the Whitehouse spokesnazi Karoline Leavitt's up-is-down/down-is-up propaganda is fed to a curated press corps who brush over her comparative personality and credibility deficits and accept every bit of BS from that poisonous polyp. (As an aside, of the two I know which I'd rather share a naked Jacuzzi session with and it's not the blonde She-Goebbels.) Trump is the broken-inside product of a dysfunctional family and subsequent vulgarisers, viz Roy Cohn and Mark Burnett. In the immediate post-WW2 years a particularly louche lawyer, Cohn, was notorious as a rabidly homophobic gay man and chief counsel for Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunts. He later mentored a credulous Trump on how to exploit power and instil fear, how to " attack, counterattack and never apologise ". Trump's Atlantic City casino empire ' was in a shambles with multiple bankruptcies. His credit was shot and his brand was tarnished when Burnett rebuilt his image into that of a wealthy, influential Manhattan businessman *' on TV's The Apprentice . Despite the many and varied failures of the Trump brand the fabricated persona of billionaire tycoon has become incontrovertible MAGA doctrine. * Paraphrased from a source I now cannot locate Prototype Trump, the inchoate real estate mogul, was an inheritance-frittering wastrel hungry for acclaim and riches to compensate for his lack of self-worth. Cohn and Burnett shaped him into a suggestible narcissist too stupid to recognise that he was the beneficiary of happenstance that favoured his talent for the grift. Self-seekers snowballed around him like the Kardashian effect of being-famous-for-being-famous. It was B-grade celebrity; there was as yet no cult. The cult arose from a brand recognition strategy for Trump's many g̶r̶i̶f̶t̶s̶ business ventures - his 2016 ferret-down-the-trousers GOP presidential nomination. To the surprise of many, including Trump, he won. The get richer quicker scheme segued into a cult. MAGA was born. A charismatic leader? How is it that an aesthetically unpleasant, inarticulate, shameless liar and vulgarian, a pervert, a needy, self-pitying whiner and delusional fantasist can deceive and manipulate a country that, until Trump, was capable of martialling its talents and resources to nurture science, technology and culture? The US is a country suckered by its own mythologies. A country not known for introspection so much as for in-your-face, strident nationalism - the country of big screen John Waynes and those who think Snow White, Cinderella, Pinocchio and The Jungle Book are all Disney concepts . It is awash in hordes of rudimentary critical thinkers who prefer feelings to facts, to whom CCR's 'Fortunate Son' and Springsteen's 'Born In The USA' are celebrations of American exceptionalism. Patsies and marks adorned with MAGA caps and Trump merch. Cult fodder.  " For so many years people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike ." realdonaldtrump, Feb 2022 God, Guns & Trump - the cult's rallying cry Americans are viewed as generally ingenuous. Some say gullible. All countries have their share of the gormless so why pick on Americans? Because they were presented with a demonstrably shady operator, sexual predator, fawning fan of despots, a grievance-driven would-be fascist, a truth allergic gobshite and a self-aggrandising fabulist as an option for exemplar of America's values - they looked at this personification of prairie dogging and said " yep, he's our guy! " Cults - a worshipful attitude toward the group’s authoritarian leader, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar ¹ Kim Jong-il is proof positive that "Dear Leader" status does not require a Greek god level of physical allure. Arbitrary executions and torture are effective alternatives for encouraging public displays of affection. His boy, Kim V3, had a very persuasive technique - executing some less than doting minions with an anti-aircraft gun. America's mercantile politics are more aligned to a marketing approach. Twatman. Superman's Clark Kent cannot top Trump's fat suit disguise. It takes a special type of stupid to look at Trump and see other than a be-moobed old man with a bad re-spray, invisible accordion hands and an Elaine Benes dance routine . Packaging Trump as a buffed fanny magnet takes chutzpah to another level but then the U.S. is the land of a capitalist, blonde, blue-eyed Jesus. These folks have their 'All American' Good Shepherd clocks on the wall and Trump NFTs where their pickup truck repayments should be. They are The Base. Shitfer's short-comings are so obvious, so pervasive and so characteristic that many cultists cannot ignore them. But, his awfulness gives them permission to also be openly awful. Hateful bigots, proudly illetterato with a Pornhub subscription, gun collection, a love of monster trucks and WWE. That all marks them out as authentic and at one with the righteous group identity. They love him because he is a man of lascivious behaviours, of multipurpose grievances; they lap up his monosyllabic, boastful hyperbole and his flouting of decorum - big, loud, belligerent. What could be more American? In your face you woke, socialist, commie leftards! A belief that the leader is right at all times The Deep State,1.5 million people attended his first inauguration, " The election was stollen (sic)", " Mexico will pay for the wall ", " No-one knows more about... ", " We've cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500 percent ", Covid " is going to disappear. It is disappearing (drink that Toilet Duck, stick that flashlight up your ass!)", windmill noise causes cancer, wet magnets don't work, " They're eating the dawgs !", unnamed foreign countries “ released their insane asylum – the insane asylum population into our country ” ... and so on. Ohhhkay Grandpa...let me take those scissors. Weaponising the cult A pathetically needy Trump craves and revels in the adoration of the MAGA and he milks their credulity and their retirement savings with outlandish braggadocio and tawdry Trump merch but it was January 6 that proved the MAGAs' worth. That attempted coup did not achieve its immediate aim - that's proving to be a longer term work in progress. It scared the shit out of, and servility into, the GOP, the media and government functionaries as evidenced by other cult characteristics ¹ that have materialised. Trumpism is a criminal cabal. MAGA is a cult that facilitates the criming. Kim Jong-il was a womaniser who enjoyed ogling Russian dancing girls. Trump's perversions are well documented in taped conversations, video footage, media reports, court records and victim testimony. All of it excused or spun by the Trumposphere. The animating belief of the cultists was the existence of a “deep-state” cover-up of the Clinton/Pelosi/Gates/Soros/et al cannibalistic paedophile, sex-trafficking ring and that Trump is the hero to expose it. His attempts at coverin g up #DeadPedoBestieGate and h is prominence in it with his now pining-for-the-fjords pedo rape buddy may be the start of his end (“ I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy, "). A likely pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell in exchange for perjured alibis may bring the whole odious MAGA ecosystem crashing down . The bursting of a deluded bubble. As pe r Ma Anand Sheela, personal assistant to Rajneeshee cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: " Tough titties . " Related reading "He’s the Chosen One to Run America”: Inside the Cult of Trump. Vanity Fair, 18 June 2020 ¹ Characteristics Associated with Cults. Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Sociology, Roy Cohn: The mysterious US lawyer who helped Donald Trump rise to power . Caryn James, BBC The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee When Cults Collapse. Is MAGA acting like a cult in its end days? Mike Madrid, Jul 24, 2025. " Donald Trump's relationship with conspiracy theories follows a predictable arc that mirrors the behavior of cult leaders under pressure...The birther conspiracy served multiple purposes. It delegitimized the first Black president, fed racial resentment, and positioned Trump as someone willing to "ask the tough questions "..." Trump's long history of lying about 9/11 and exploiting it for personal gain . SMH, 12 Sept 2018. " He saw a terrorist attack against America as an opportunity for self-aggrandisement and self-promotion.... This is who Donald Trump is. It's who he's always been. And it's who he's always going to be."

What happens when the RWNJ's tame Aborigine proves to be a self-absorbed, Trumpy twat? "What?" When you fan-girl the bloated, orange paedophile Cankles McTinyhands and are in turn subject to deification from the swivel-eyed, goose-steppers of Advance then perhaps your claim to future PM status needs to be reassessed. She's the darling of far right wingnuts, a pin-up for "respectable" racists - providing them with the cover of the 'some of my best friends are Aborigines'* gambit. Her casual racism has hit the right note for the Nats with Matt Canavan (the homuncular idiot from the Village People) telling Sky News she would be “ welcomed back with open arms ”, that she was a “ rock star as a politician ”. * “But asking us if we are racists in the same breath as you question our support for an Indigenous senator is what we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media. ” Advance spokesman Weekers Pierce, SMH 13 Sept 2025 ( name changed to protect his idiocy ) Price’s supporters including Fingers Taylor, screech therapist and V05 abuser Mickey The Trash, the Sky goebbelist s Credlin, Panahi et al are an effluvium of frog boilers, humbuggers, liars and far right weirdos. The most damning of indictments however is an endorsement from her mentor Crusader Rabid, the engineer of her defection to the Liberals and the red-sluggoed kiss of death: "I’m confident that the leadership team of Angus Taylor and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has the conviction and courage to make a real contest of the next election." Tony Abbott, Xitter, 11/5/25. This is the bloke who after anointing himself as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the transient Credlin government claimed Australia was " unsettled or scarcely settled " at the time of British arrival, and that remote indigenous communities were an indulgent " lifestyle choice ". He promptly gutted $500 million from vital Indigenous community service programs via his first budget. Massacres, murders, dispossession and marginalization, removal of Indigenous children from their families and communities, disease, alcohol and long lasting consequences of entrenched disadvantage yet this Aunt Jemima seeks celebrity as the face of Advance’s fight against the reciprocal courtesies of the Voice and Welcomes to Country. “ A positive impact, absolutely. I mean, now we have running water, readily available food ” Jacinta Price "Ordinary Aussies” with “mainstream values” Price cl aims to represent the bush rather than ‘inner city elites’. Advance's anti-elite membership has included such knockabout proletarians as storage king Sam Kennard ($2.6b empire), comb-over king Maurice Newman, coal baron Trevor St Baker, far-right president of the Zionist Australian Jewish Association David Adler, vitamins tycoon Marcus Blackmore and filthy rich financier Simon Fenwick. Political journalist Mungo McCallum described them as a “ stratospherically elite clique of rich, bored men looking for a hobby." Perhaps that hobby has incorporated a strategy for back-door access to those lands held by indigenous communities - see footnote¹? Elite? Moi? Source :   theklaxon.com.au/ Totemic adulation from the zombie hordes of entitled RWNJ window lickers requires credentials: The Tory mindset of blaming the victim, their reflex punching down and innate zero sum ethos disavows the simple decency of acknowledging indigenous connection to the land and it seems that Price, railing against the “Canberra elite” from the Qantas Chairman's Lounge, will not be letting any mob affinity get in the way of her hapless Kirribilli House ambition. Joh Bjelke redux. The Price of anti-elitism spent $76,000 on business class flights during the Voice referendum and $21,000 on a flight to attend a cost-of-living committee meeting. She had to repay expenses she improperly claimed from the taxpayer 13 times, totalling almost $11,000. Contemporary right-wing freakshow membership includes genuflecting in the general direction of the moronic, orange felon. Price has clipped that ticket and more - splayed like pigeon poop at the feet of her golden god: “ Make Australia great again ” she would have us believe was a slip of the tongue, which is viable spin given anyone's core beliefs are prone to untimely leakage. She blamed the media for noticing. DOGE down under. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the shadow minister for government efficiency! Is this mindless mimicry a breach of MAGA copyright? Undermining trust in national institutions such as our electoral model. " Price alleged there had been “a lot of manipulation” at booths in the Voice referendum, in which nearly all remote Aboriginal communities in the NT voted Yes." (SMH, 14/9/2025.) Criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement - it's just virtue signalling . The MAGA palette of grievanc e -  inner-city elites, cultural Marxism, brainwashing the kiddies, identity politics, mediation of climate change and that old favourite, the "woke". What slavery? What indigenous disenfranchisement and slaughter? There's no need for DEI and there's no need for a Voice. Price's latest echoing of Trumpery was of course the Great Replacement Theory: “Labor would like to be able to ensure that they’re going to allow those in that would ultimately support their policies, their views – and vote for them as well.” Price on the ABC's Afternoon Briefing Price refused to apologise, insisting that she has a “ great relationship with Indian members within my own community ” (some of my best friends...). Elected to the Senate on the CLP ticket she quickly jumped ship to the Libs, queue-jumped by putting her hand up for deputy leader, promptly pulled back and is now banished to the bleachers after refusing to stand by her leader. This stuff makes asphalt backstroke champion Barkin' Barnaby look statesman-like. " ...she was anything but a team player, and for all the “rockstar” stuff, she had poor judgement about mainstream politics — and would blame the media for her own failings. " Bernard Keane for Crikey She's a one trick 'No' pony, performing for the committed RWNJ base but as a backbench loose unit she'll white-ant Ley's leadership. “ Although I will be returning to the backbench, I will continue to ̶s̶o̶w̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶d̶r̶a̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ ̶f̶u̶r̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶n̶u̶t̶ ̶b̶a̶g̶ ̶r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ speak up on issues which are in the national interest and that are important to millions of Australians ,” she said in a statement. * * * * * “ I can absolutely assure you the leader has the total support of her shadow ministry and she has the overwhelming support of our party room. ” Anne Ruston, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, 1 1September 2025, thereby confirming Ley is a goner. "FFS!" Some interesting add-ons. ¹ Major No donor looking to defeat the Voice is an investor in Indigenous land ventures . ABC News, 10 Oct 2023. "But Mr Fenwick's interest in Indigenous affairs is not solely political or philanthropic. "He is also a director and shareholder of New Harvest Investment Management, a private company seeking to raise more than $50 million to invest in joint ventures with Indigenous landholders. "Investments are made to assist traditional owners unlock the value of their land in agricultural and carbon projects," the New Harvest website says of the fund" ‘She’s making big trouble’: Why Jacinta Price is losing favour in her family’s home town . Patrick Begley and Natassia Chrysanthos, SMH 14 September 2025. ($) "For Price, land use is not simply a policy matter. It’s personal. In 2021, she said a lot of traditional owners – herself included – “have not had the opportunity to be able to access their own country for economic development opportunities”." Jacinta Price says 'lots' of Australians want her as PM ...National Indigenous Times. "Speaking on Sky News after abandoning her bid to become deputy leader of the Liberal Party which saw Sussan Ley win the leadership ballot on Tuesday morning, Senator Price said she had broad support for the country's top job." Tony Abbott's hypocrisy on indigenous issues knows no bounds - ulurustatement.org   White man’s dark money: meet the bankrollers.  Anthony Klan, The Klaxon. " The entire premise of the “No” campaign against the Indigenous Voice to parliament was a sham. "Not only was its murky network of half-a-dozen entities “run” from a fake national headquarters — by directors stating fake residential addresses — it was also a fake “grassroots campaign” of fake “ordinary Australian s”. Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom and the Red Dipstick Maurice Newman's anti-elitist CV Wikipedia Newman chaired a number of Asian business alliances including the East Asia and Oceania Stock Exchange Federation, and the Australia Taiwan Business Council.[citation needed] He has been an adviser to Australian governments, as a member of the Consultative Committee on Relations with Japan (1984–1987); a Commissioner of the National Commission of Audit (1996); a member of the Business Advisory Panel established by the Minister for Multicultural Affairs (1997–2002); Chairman of the National Judging Panel for Innovation in Local Government (1997–1998); Chairman of the Commonwealth Government's National Year 2000 Steering Committee (1997–2000) and the Business Mature Age Workforce Advisory Group (2000–2001); Co-Chair of the Singapore Australia Business Alliance Forum (1999–2002); Chairman of the Federal Treasurer's Financial Sector Advisory Council (1998–2007); Member of the New South Wales Premier's Major Events Board (2002–2004); Chairman of the Sydney Convention & Visitors Bureau (2001–2007); and Chairman of Tourism NSW (2002–2007).[citation needed] In 1997, he was Australia's Private Sector Representative to the First Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Business Forum held in London. In 1999 he led a delegation of senior Australian executives to New York promoting "Australia, the Dynamic Success Story of the Asia Pacific - A Centre for Global Financial Services".[citation needed] Newman was Chairman of Acrux Limited (1999–2003); Chairman of the Sydney Legacy Citizen's Committee (1998–2004); Member of the Advisory Committee of Australasian Medical Insurance Ltd (January – August 2003); Member of the Advisory Council of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre (2001–2004); Member of the Business Council of Australia's Chairmen's Panel (2003–2007); and Civil Patron, Royal Australian Naval reserve, Professional Studies Program (2005–2009). He served as Chancellor of Macquarie University from 2002 to February 2008. Currently he is an Honorary Professor at Macquarie University and Honorary Chair of the Macquarie University Foundation Patrons.[citation needed] He was a Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 2000 to 2004; and served as Chairman of the ABC between 1 January 2007 to 31 March 2012.[10] On 31 March 2012, he stood down as Chair of the ABC and was succeeded by James Spigelman AC QC. In 2002 Newman was appointed an Advisor to the Marsh Group of Companies. In June 2004, he was appointed a Director of the Queensland Investment Corporation.